One of the last silent westerns. Benjamin Franklin Wilson (yep, that was his name!) spent his entire screen career producing, directing, writing and occasionally starring in literally hundreds of low-budget Westerns and serials, many, like “Thundering Thompson,” made far away from mainstream Hollywood in dusty little California hamlets. Westerns, especially, were cheap to produce by enterprising fly-by-night outfits in that they demanded little more than a personable hero (here Cheyenne Bill, real name Henry William McKechnie), a pretty maiden (in this case frequent Wilson collaborator Neva Gerber), a nasty villain (the ever-present Al Ferguson who all but twirls his mustache) and a workmanlike plot.
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